Brigid Schulte: "Trump’s new rule to punish immigrants just shows how bad American jobs are"
Brigid Schulte, a former Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter for the paper, has penned a new piece for the
Washington Post.
❝ In announcing a controversial new policy designed to prevent immigrants from becoming a burden to taxpayers, Trump administration officials said they were trying to uphold the very American principle of self-sufficiency. Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, went so far as to claim that the new rule clarifies the meaning of the famous Emma Lazarus poem on the Statue of Liberty. He told NPR last month that the motto is best summarized as, “Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge” …[WashingtonPost.com]
| BRIGID SCHULTE is the Director of the Better Life Lab and The Good Life Initiative at New America, and author of the NY Times bestseller, Overwhelmed. Watch her TED Talk on "How to Work, Love and Play When No One Has Time" below, and learn more about booking Brigid for your next event today. |
